Word: pc
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...just installed a Wi-Fi network in my home. Wi-Fi, known on Apple computers as Airport and to PC geeks as 802.11b, is an increasingly popular way to get online without being tethered to a cable. The connection hangs in the air as a radio signal, ready to be received within 300 ft. of the transmitter. Plug an Internet cable into a wireless router (I used a $199 DSL router from Belkin), put wireless cards in all your computers (they cost about $100 a pop), and you're ready to surf on the move. So, as I discovered...
...absolute right to control whatever intellectual property you've created - or in the case of DCMA proponents, mostly purchased," says Linus Torvalds, a pioneer of the open-source operating system Linux. "Never mind the rights of consumers." The ability to transfer a CD from your stereo to your PC or to copy a newspaper article for private use "is a matter that concerns us all," says copyright expert P. Bernt Hugenholtz of the University of Amsterdam. "Such freedoms are - or should be - inherent qualities of any information product." Johansen agrees, which is why he felt justified in playing DVDs...
...demand more from our gadgetry, our computers continue to be the centers of the digital universe. As first-years, computers were our word processors and e-mail machines. Today, they are the means by which we run our lives. In 1998, some were heralding the death of the PC. Today, we’re embracing personal computers in a new way, and our college years were the years that shaped that change...
...attorney asked Billings to head up an effort to write the technical manuals for the PC startup...
...introduced its PC,” Billings says, “and in those days there was a lot of security in the three letters IBM and not much security in anyone else’s name...